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At Addition Wealth, we’re on a mission to redefine financial health by making personalized financial expertise inclusive and accessible to everyone. Through innovative technology and meaningful partnerships with leading companies and financial institutions, we empower individuals with robust digital tools, a comprehensive knowledge center, and access to top financial professionals to confidently navigate life’s financial decisions. Our work not only reduces stress and improves productivity but transforms how people think about and manage their money.
We’re not just another financial wellness platform. We are pioneering a revolution in how individuals make financial decisions—leveraging technology to create seamless, impactful, and life-changing experiences. At Addition Wealth, you’ll have the opportunity to solve complex challenges, push the boundaries of what’s possible, and create tools that truly make a difference.
Our impact has been recognized globally. Backed by top fintech VCs including Barclays, Anthemis, and Nyca, Addition Wealth has been named one of Business Insider’s 54 Promising Fintech Companies to Watch, honored with UBS’ Female Founder Award 2023, and selected as a World Economic Forum Top Innovator. We’ve also been featured in Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Insider, Forbes, and other leading publications. Together, we’re building something extraordinary—and we’re just getting started.
About the Role
Addition Wealth is looking for a Head of Data to own and advance our data strategy, infrastructure, and insights as we scale. This is a player/coach role: you’ll lead a small but high-impact team (a Data Analyst and a Senior Data Engineer), while staying deeply hands-on in both analytics and data engineering.In this role, you’ll set direction for how data is built, governed, and used across Addition Wealth, partnering closely with cross-functional leaders to turn business priorities into clear, measurable outcomes. You’ll lead and develop a lean, high-impact team while remaining hands-on.
What You’ll Work On
- Define and drive Addition Wealth’s data vision and roadmap across analytics, infrastructure, governance, and personalization, ensuring work ladders to company priorities.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to surface high-leverage questions, translate them into measurable metrics, and guide decision-making with clear insights.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a small, high-impact team (Data Analyst and Senior Data Engineer), providing coaching and technical direction while staying hands-on.
- Own the end-to-end analytics lifecycle—metric definition, data quality, dashboards, deep dives, and executive-ready narratives including scenario modeling.
What We’re Looking For:
- 7–10+ years in data-focused roles spanning analytics and/or data engineering, ideally in high-growth startups or fintech.
- Proven ability to operate as a senior IC while also leading a small team—comfortably switching between strategy and execution.
- Deep expertise in SQL, data modeling, and analytics best practices.
- Strong experience building and maintaining data pipelines and warehousing solutions (Postgres, Snowflake/Redshift, Segment, dbt, Airflow, or similar).Experience with AWS-based data infrastructure (S3, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, ECS, etc.) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation).A strong product and business mindset: you care about impact, not just outputs.
- Excellent communication skills; you can cut through the noise to develop clear plans and crisp insights for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfort in ambiguity and speed: you launch, learn, iterate, and don’t wait for perfection.
- Bonus: experience with Matillion, financial wellness, or other regulated/consumer fintech products.
Our Tech Stack
- Languages: TypeScript (Node.js)
- Frameworks: NestJS, NextJS
- Data & Infra: Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake, Segment, Terraform, AWS, Matillion
We also offer great benefits & perks including:
- Competitive salary401(k) & Employer Match
- Work from anywhere
- Health insurance & wellness benefits
- Equity compensation
- Generous parental leave
- Unlimited vacation
- Company offsites
- Unlimited access to financial professionals
